Lady Elara expected a cold marriage of convenience, but the notorious Duke of Blackwood demands a far more intimate payment for her father's gambling debts. He stalks through the moonlit shadows of his ancestral estate, a predator hungry for the purity she guarded so fiercely. As his rough hands claim her trembling skin, she discovers a terrifying hunger of her own that threatens to consume every shred of her resistance. One night of forbidden ruin will change everything.